MERRY QUINN-MAS
Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal is NOW LIVE!!
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a brand new holiday rom-com with all the humor and heat her fans adore.
Nothing says I love you like trespassing, public humiliation, and a town-wide Christmas spectacle to win your crush back.
Atlas “Max” Maxheimer did not sign up for this. One minute, he’s anxiously trying to keep his family’s Christmas tree farm from imploding. The next? He’s passed out in the snow after getting clocked by a suspiciously strong bottle of soda.
Enter Betty: new in town, full of holiday cheer, and helping her uncle open a rival tree farm next door. Max is convinced she’s out to destroy everything Evergreen Farm stands for. Betty thinks Max might be one sleigh short of a winter parade.
Cue the holiday chaos.
Between blizzards, blown reputations, wildly misguided romantic plots, and one stolen ornament with a seriously tragic backstory, this small-town war turns into something far messier―and much more delicious―than either of them expected.
Tropes:
Holiday hijinks
Small-town laughs
Rivals to lovers
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 5 Stars
We go back to the Christmas-loving town of Kringle in Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal. After being Cole’s sidekick in the first book, Atlas “Max” Maxheimer now gets his own chance at love in this Home Alone-inspired, rivals-to-lovers romance that was sweet, spicy, and HILARIOUS.
After having to close her retail store, Betty is down on her luck when her uncle Dwight gives her the opportunity to help him create a new business on a parcel of farmland that he’s owned for years. But the business Dwight wants to open will put the Maxheimers’ tree farm out of business. Nobody in his family believes Max when he gets wind of this, so he sets out to save his family’s farm — and ends up falling hard for Betty along the way.
These characters were so in sync. It’s a wild, messy, chaotic journey, but I loved going along for the ride as Max and Betty fell in love, especially with his Grand Gesture to win her back that involved most of Kringle. There’s a great subplot with the hate that Dwight has for Atlas — and it involves a Christmas tree ornament with a tragic backstory. As much as I laughed throughout this book, the history behind Dwight’s ornament made me shed a tear.
As amazing as this book was, it was even better listening to the audio as I went back and forth between the two versions. Teddy Hamilton and Samantha Brentmoor were phenomenal as Atlas and Betty, with Vanessa Edwin and JF Harding back again as Storee and Cole, additional characters voiced by Robert Hatchet, and Shane East returning as the hilarious narrator. (And yes, we finally find out who the narrator is! Can he get his own book?)
I wish I could have a conversation with Meghan Quinn about where she comes up with some of her scenarios. I really think Atlas and Betty’s use of popcorn tops Cole and Storee’s candy cane escapade. IYKYK. Definitely put this book on your holiday reading list!
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
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